Do they know what caused it?

It certainly wasn't the ship's navigation equipment, It wans't the sonar, radar, satellite nav, or Tacan. My Honda Civic can navigate better than that, and it knows how not to skid on ice. A Ford Focus can park itself.

The captain is negligent.
The crew are incompetent.
The home-office administrators are crazy.
The owners are greedy.

Did I miss anyone?

Do they know what caused it?

It certainly wasn't the ship's navigation equipment, It wans't the sonar, radar, satellite nav, or Tacan. My Honda Civic can navigate better than that, and it knows how not to skid on ice. A Ford Focus can park itself.

The captain is negligent.
The crew are incompetent.
The home-office administrators are crazy.
The owners are greedy.

Did I miss anyone?

... Cooperate greed, not sure how you fit that in there. This was definitely a human error, but people on this site love to blame business for everything.

Corporate culture starts at the top, and is controlled by the folks who own the company. Their vision of their business is what drives their mission and policies -- especially policies.

Corporate culture can be positive or pro-active, such as department goals, or infrastructure such as how the employees get educated, and how they treat each other.

Corporate culture can be restrictive, too, such as lack of recognition, or focus on law instead of people.

It sets the tone and direction for all the at-work behaviour of all employees.

In the case of the Costa accident, the crew and captain all demonstrated incompetence. This can only happen if the Corporate vision and drive allowed it, or possibly encouraged careless and reckless procedures in their daily duties. The consequences were severe and very obvious.

I say "demonstrated" because there's no way a ship like the Concordia could be sailing at random with nobody at the helm.

I also claim that the "culture" is real, and is a necessary part of the accident. It's not good enough to claim the captain is "responsible" and stick it all to him. So if the captain is responsible and should go to jail, so should all his superiors in the Costa home-office. All the way to the president of the company, and maybe the CEO, too!

There's blame enough to go around. They all did it!

Captain being negligent I can agree with 99.9999%. The rest, well, I don't have enough detail to blame all those people. I have no idea what they did and didn't do.

Crew incompetent, strong possibility for sure.
Home office, not sure about that. From all accounts I've read and seen, all system were operation, just the deck people decided to ignore them. Something they had done on previous trips too. (Captain was entertaining a "guest" with champagne in his room.

Cooperate greed, not sure how you fit that in there. This was definitely a human error, but people on this site love to blame business for everything.

In the case of the Costa accident, the crew and captain all demonstrated incompetence. This can only happen if the Corporate vision and drive allowed it, or possibly encouraged careless and reckless procedures in their daily duties.

As I understand it, they did a "fly-by" of this island every trip - although the company disavows it and claims that it's against their rules to go that close.

I'm going to go ahead and agree with you on this. I haven't been following it all that closely, but from what I have seen, I have a lot trouble ascribing any of this to some nebulous corporate greed.

As I said, I haven't been following all that closely. Where's you read that?

I heard it on news reports. They would go close to the island and honk their horn to get crowds waving to each other. I'm sure it was entertaining for all. I mean, aside from the whole rolling over and drowning people part.

GO

I just googled and read that, too. I'll be changing my opinion now.

But wait, why? I mean, guangzhou must be right, and I must be wrong. It's inconceivable that any corporation might be greedy, and cut corners in the name of convenience or profit, right? I mean, businesses are always factors for good in this world, aren't they?

G

Not yet, but I'm fairly sure that boulder shouldn't be stuck in there like that.

Curt

I thought that came standard, like anti-lock brakes. Shows you what I know...

As far as business owners and greed, I think the less understanding of the product or service a business owner has, the more likely they will be motivated by greed, or at least the bottom line over the quality of the service or product they delivered. I always chafed under requirements done for reasons of economy (or more accurately, expanding profit margin) that specifically contravened my ability to ensure that the customer would come back.

To my mind, getting your customers killed is a pretty good way to make sure the dead ones don't come back.

It's not that businesses always do well or what they are suppose too. I just don't believe every business is bad just because they want a profit.

I don't believe starting a business to make money is greed, regardless of how big the business get or gets.

Posters on this forum love to blame things on cooperate greed.